geepondy
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Ok, here's what I want to do. I currently have a drive partitioned as C and D with XP installed on the C drive. I also have another hard drive which is E. I am going to buy and install a much bigger drive, partition that into two drives and copy the XP OS into one of the partitions and then disconnect my second E drive and replace it with my original C/D drive of which at some point I'll probably partition back into one drive. Sound confusing?
Here's is the plan and what I foresee as a possibly problem. I have an external drive. I will back the current C, OS drive into that. I will then install the new hard drive, partition that into two drives. When I do that, of course windows will name it two different drive letters, as F is the CD drive, I'm guess G and H. I will then copy the backed up OS from the external drive into one of the two new drive letters. As mentioned, I then want to disconnect the original drive and have this new drive become the C and D drives but the problem I see is will Windows let me do that or will it force the new drive to remain at the drive letters it originally assigned it? As all my desktop and program shortcuts point to the C drive, I think this will be a problem if it doesn't plus of course I want the computer to boot off the new drive with copied OS.
Or if anybody has suggestions on the best way to accomplish my original plan, please share.
Here's is the plan and what I foresee as a possibly problem. I have an external drive. I will back the current C, OS drive into that. I will then install the new hard drive, partition that into two drives. When I do that, of course windows will name it two different drive letters, as F is the CD drive, I'm guess G and H. I will then copy the backed up OS from the external drive into one of the two new drive letters. As mentioned, I then want to disconnect the original drive and have this new drive become the C and D drives but the problem I see is will Windows let me do that or will it force the new drive to remain at the drive letters it originally assigned it? As all my desktop and program shortcuts point to the C drive, I think this will be a problem if it doesn't plus of course I want the computer to boot off the new drive with copied OS.
Or if anybody has suggestions on the best way to accomplish my original plan, please share.